A principle that limits the extent of something

Usage examples of limitation.

Kuhl, that retarded people often resist acknowledging their limitations?

My illustrious friend still continuing to sound in my ears the imperious duty to which I was called, of making away with my sinful relations, and quoting many parallel actions out of the Scriptures, and the writings of the holy fathers, of the pleasure the Lord took in such as executed his vengeance on the wicked, I was obliged to acquiesce in his measures, though with certain limitations.

Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.

The latter interpretation, however, does not state a limitation on the power of making treaties in the sense of international conventions, but rather a necessary procedure before certain conventions are cognizable by the courts in the enforcement of rights under them, while the former interpretation has been contradicted in practice from the outset.

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We would perhaps no longer be reading the authentic Sartre, but this move might provide an opportunity to depart from the metaphysical negativity of authenticity and bad faith that linger as symptoms of the limitations of existentialism, and to see how Sartre contributes to the power of Nietzsche in philosophy today.

Augustus Gom, like so many women of her type, had serious limitations.

Eldership only a cyclic ago, the result of a drudokyi attack elsewhere on Gree, and she was still coming to grips with these new limitations that had been imposed on her.

Constitution provides for no limitations on the guarantees of personal liberty, except as to habeas corpus.

You are indeed very powerful, but the diamond support has its limitations.

Their peculiar nature did not protect them from strain and limitation: the necessary, ineluctable, and crippling strictures of Time.

Garden, riders called the place, the area all around and northeast of Anveney, where the soil lay completely bare and prone to erosion, gullies leading to gullies leading to a wash that ran down to a river that ran through barren banks a long, long way before the inpouring of other streams began to put more life into Limitation River than death could take out.

As one of the radical critics of reductionist science in the last decades, I have taken my own part in these debates, and I have lived the best part of my life with a feminist sociologist of science whose searching exposure of the nature of a masculinist and largely white science as it is practised in western capitalist societies will soon reveal the weak places in any uncritical defence of a science which refuses to recognize its limitations.

Television shows now adopt the ironic humor of much metafiction, and begin to poke fun at themselves, and dramatize their limitations.

Is it to continue, without other limitations against cruelty than those which are self-imposed, without legal restriction or restraint, so long as civilization endures, ever widening its scope, ever increasing the hecatombs of its victims, until uncounted milions shall have been sacrificed?